Samuel Peter Beswick

Samuel Peter Beswick is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard School of Law. His research focuses on private law, tort law, unjust enrichment, remedies, and legal theory, with an emphasis on temporal doctrines and the rule of law in public authority liability. He has edited two open-access publications: Tort Law: Cases and Commentaries and the Common Law Torts Wiki, contributing to accessible legal education.

• Education: BCom, LLB (Hons.) from the University of Auckland; LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School.
• Previous Roles: Teaching positions at Harvard, King’s College London, and the University of Auckland; postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Project on the Foundations of Private Law; litigator and clerk in the High Court of New Zealand.

His scholarship addresses judicial law-making, retroactivity, and comparative common law reasoning. Notable awards include the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, Peter Brooks Saltonstall Scholarship, and the New Zealand Ministry of Justice Article Prize. Dr. Beswick teaches courses on torts, restitution, and time in law, with a focus on equality under law and cross-jurisdictional analysis.